Dawn primarolo semming unable to answer letters that contain awkward questions, on theft within the HMRC by employees..on sort my Tax Credit problems..seemingly unwilling to do that as well, as she was in charge at the time..

"The best way to take control over a people and control them utterly is to take a little of their freedom at a time, to erode rights by a thousand tiny and almost imperceptiblereductions. In this way the people will not see those rights and freedoms being removed until past the point at which these changes cannot be reversed."

"The best way to take control over a people and control them utterly is to take a little of their freedom at a time, to erode rights by a thousand tiny and almost imperceptiblereductions. In this way the people will not see those rights and freedoms being removed until past the point at which these changes cannot be reversed."

Robert, this should cheer you up; seems that your chocolate teapot MP is not going to be dominating Bristol politics very much longer:

Heavy losses for Labour in Bristol05/06/2009

The Labour Party has suffered a crushing defeat at local elections in Bristol - losing eight of its 10 contested seats….This means the Labour Party drop to third place overall in the council…Labour MP for Bristol South Dawn Primarolo was present at the Bristol Council House, where the count was co-ordinated.

Despite the humiliating loss, the minister of state for public health remained defiant.She said: "Tonight is clearly disappointing, lots of good Labour councillors have lost their seats tonight. "It's undeniable that the voters are angry and it focused around the issues at Westminster and MPs expenses…

Ms Primarolo put Tory and Lib Dem gains down to protest votes against her party... Finally, the minister said she did not expect the chain of resignations to end with Mr Brown standing down as Prime Minister.

A Bristol MP has joined calls for families paid too much money by the tax credit system to have their debts written off.

Bristol North West Labour MP Doug Naysmith will address a conference at the Thistle Hotel in Bristol later to make the call.

It's been organised by the Citizen's Advice Bureau, who say they have seen numerous families come to them asking for debt advice as a result of tax credit overpayments.

The problems stem mainly from the early years of the system, from 2003-2005 when they claim the system was "poorly administered", a fact the government admits.

Some families have run up debts of as much as £13,000, though the average overpayment is between £2000-£3000.

The CAB says in some cases, the system is so complicated that even those running it can't work out how much the debts are.

It gives the example of one Bristol family who have been given five different figures for the amount of their debt, including one at nearly £4000. They eventually had the real debt - £1000 - written off.

Doug Naysmith has signed a motion in the House of Commons calling for the government to cancel debts. He will address the Bristol conference later.

But he admits it may be difficult to get the government to agree fully. He told Original 106.5: "I'm under no illusion that this will be an easy thing to do. The treasury very sensibly says that we can't write off people's debts because it could be unfair.

"If word gets around that we will write debts off then people who run them up later for whatever reason will think it's unfair - that others have had them written off and they can't.